58 Quotes by Jeff Ament

Unless you're a vegan freak of nature like Tony Gonzalez, I don't think you can play sports much past your early 30s.

We opened for Black Flag, and none of the bands had dressing rooms, but Henry Rollins had his own. He had struck me as different from that.

We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that.

We saw something starting to happen with the industry and we called them out on it,

We went to Big Sur about three years ago and hung out at the Esalen Institute.

Everything Ticketmaster stands for is what we're fighting against. They're just a small cog in a machine where the artist is at the bottom.

Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.

I've seen kids turn their lives around. It's usually a kid who's outside of the team-sport world, or maybe has a darker personality or doesn't fit in. Skateboarding ends up being something they latch onto. It sounds hokey, but finding a focus on something - whether it's skateboard or playing your guitar - can be life changing.

People see Eddie for 20 seconds at the Grammys and think, Goddamn, he must be like this all the time. I feel sorry for his friends.